Chapter 59

"The moment that man came in, he casually picked up a bar and propped the door shut, only then turning around."

"He was a fellow who looked honest and dull-witted, around twenty years old."

"But at this moment, on that utterly ordinary face of his, there was an irrepressible, strange excitement."

"The fellow pulled open his cotton-padded jacket, pointing at a belt tied around his waist that looked stuffed full."

"He said to the woman in great excitement: Forty jin in total — it's what I've hidden away over three years, by every means I could think of!"

"Hearing this, the woman instantly began trembling all over, hastily blew out the candle and said: Are you trying to get yourself killed?"

"Who would have thought that fellow said firmly: I don't want to die. I want to take this gold and you, and run away together."

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